Priebus to meet NYC donors on post-election listening tour

11/30/12 2:01 PM EST

Jets owner and Mitt Romney mega-bundler Woody Johnson is hosting a lunch meeting with dozens of New York-area bundlers and Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus on Monday, which two bundlers described as a "vent session" to go over what happened in the 2012 election.

The meeting, in Midtown Manhattan, will feature potentially more than 100 donors, and is part of the move that Priebus, who is running for a second term, described to Senators a few weeks ago (as reported by my Hill colleagues) to do an autopsy on the losses.

Two donors described it as a "vent session," suggesting bundlers will not only ask what went wrong but tell Priebus, who indicated a few days after the election that he was leanng toward running again, what they think the problems were.

It's one of a few sessions that Priebus is likely to hold with donors in various, donor-heavy regions, like California, sources said.

Sources familiar with the autopsy of things like the RNC's field program, which was part of a Romney ground game effort that was swamped by President Obama's team, insisted it's not being led by RNC chief-of-staff Jeff Larson. In 2010, Larson left the firm he co-founded, FLS Connect, where Romney's political director Rich Beeson was also once a parter.

The sources said someone outside the RNC staff is doing the autopsy, but declined to say who.